On Feb 9, 2009, at 11:47 PM, Gerd Knops wrote:

Assuming I have two identical USB keyboards (actually barcode scanners) connected to a mac, is there any way to tell which of them a keyboard event came from?

[snip]

Is there some way to, say, get a unique USB device ID or something like that from an NSEvent or a EventRef?


I faced a similar problem a couple months ago, and didn't find any way to correlate an NSEvent with a keyboard. My solution was to use Dave Dribin's DDHidLib (http://www.dribin.org/dave/software/). I listen for the low-level HID event, which is device-specific, then wait for the next NSEvent to bubble up. It's a bit of housekeeping, but it has been working well in practice.

HTH
-- Kevin

Kevin Gessner
http://kevingessner.com
ke...@kevingessner.com






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